DAILY STRENGTH FOR MEN
February 1 (day 2)

Passage: Verse in Context - Deuteronomy 6:1-2, 4-6 NRSV

This is the commandment - the statues and the ordinances - that the LORD your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, so that you and your children and your children's children may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life, and keep all his decerees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long. Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart.

Related Passage - Mark 12:28-31 NASB

One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answered, "The foremost is 'Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself'. There is no other commandment greater than these."

Questions for Reflection and Application

* Take a few minutes and do a self-assessment.
What are your primary resources? What are
your greatest strengths.
* Why do you think God has blessed you with
what you have?
* What are some practical ways that you can
love God with everything you have? Which of
those ways are you doing already? Are you
doing them as well and as often as you can?
Which things are you not doing or not doing
enough, and why?

Lord, you are a God of unlimited resources, and you have seen fit to bless me with a rich set of those resources. Guide my use of these gifts, that they may honor you. Amen.